Using Beyond Compare In CFEclipse
Wednesday 31 October 2007 - Filed under Code
My favorite diff tool (and it does so much more) for a long time has been Beyond Compare.
When I started using SVN and Eclipse – I looked for a way to integrate Beyond Compare into the mix so I could use it to compare my working copy against the repository. I found Beyond CVS – but unfortunately it only supported CVS. :( There were a few comments on there asking for SVN support and I added one myself and promptly forgot about it.
Well a few days ago I got an email from the plugin author informing me he had finally updated things and added support for SVN!!! Woot!
To install – simply download the ZIP (make sure you grab the one with SVN support!), extract the ZIP and copy the /features and /plugins directories to your existing Eclipse directory.
Crank up CFEclipse and you should have some shiney buttons as well as some additional options in your right click menu when you go to compare a file:
Update: Looks like the new 0.8.x version requires Eclipse 3.4.
2007-10-31 » Jim Priest
8 November 2007 @ 2:34 pm
I’ve downloaded it and extracted it to my Eclipse folder but nothing happend after the restart. I cann’t see any new icons (functions), when I right-click on a file and say: compare with
Is there another thing I’ve to do?
I’m using SVN, but the SVN interface is SVNKit, maybe this can be a problem?
9 November 2007 @ 10:09 am
Now I’ve found out my problem:
I’ve not installed the external tool launcher in Eclipse:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151985&package_id=168106&release_id=369005
That’s it.
27 November 2007 @ 7:23 pm
I installed Beyond CVS that suppose to support svn. (org.eclipse.externaltools_v0.7.0_with_svn.zip). For some reason now I can compare two files, but when i try to compare with any other optiong “Latest Revision” or “Revision” it gives me this error. I don’t know what to do.
Error is “A error occrued while trying to compare revisions: null”
How do fix this?
29 November 2007 @ 3:06 pm
Prerna – I have no idea unfortunately… Are you running the latest version of Eclipse?
29 November 2007 @ 3:31 pm
JIM, I found the problem. I was using team SVN plug-in instead of subclipse tigris 1.2.4. It works with the tigris-subclipse (1.2.4), but not with the other svn plug-ins. I don’t like to use subiclpise because it does not let me lock the files recursively by right clicking on the folder.
Thanks, Prerna
9 January 2008 @ 7:55 am
[...] If you use Eclipse there is a diff tool built in! Right click any file and select “Compare With”. You can compare files in your local history, and if you are using source control, you can compare with previous revisions. (In the screenshot below I have a BeyondCVS plugin installed which allows me to use Beyond Compare within Eclipse). [...]